The Economy of Cities
Опубликовано на портале: 27-11-2006
Vintage, 1970, 288 с.
Тематические разделы:
The book advances two propositions, one in the field of archaeology, the other in
economics. Traditional archaeologists had always presumed that a city could only
appear where there was enough food for a great number of inhabitants not producing
food exclusively to exist. Hence, agriculture logically preceded the city. Jacobs
argues that the opposite is true. It is through trade in wild animals and grains
that people in cities discovered agriculture and then exported it (like our modern
factory towns) to the outskirts of the city itself.
In this work Jacobs also tackles the question of economic booms. Great cities with
flourishing economies have had one of these economic booms. She asserts that it is
through import replacement that cities have such economic growth. She also asserts
that cities are at the root of all economic growth (agricultural, manufacturing,
technology, information, etc) and therefore import replacement is the cause to all
economic growth. In an interview with Bill Steigerwald in Reason Magazine (06/01),
Jacobs said that if she is remembered for being a great intellectual she will be
remembered not for her work concerning city planning, but for the discovery of import
replacement.
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